Chapter 17: Just back away

Pat looked back to them wondering what to do, just as the thing lunged at Peppi. It never touched her, though. Conlan, quick to react, was already changing into his animal form – the unicorn. Just as it was within an arm's length of Peppi, his alicorn made contact with it.

The thing bounced off the wall, but somehow split in half as it did so. Now there were two. The monitors grew arms that reattached themselves together, and the new units added themselves together. The monitors stretched into giant, cybernetic eyelids.

"Your efforts are pointless, archon. Surely you know our victory is guaranteed now," the thing wheezed through the speakers.

"Who are you?" Peppi demanded, completely undeterred by the fact that the thing had targeted her a second earlier.